Monthly Archives: May 2008

Oil Prices continued their assent today – I’m not going to venture a guess except to say the price of oil is probably going to continue upwards. This is a graph of the price of Oil over the past year: … Continue reading →

Okay, I tried to let this one go but I just couldn’t. I will expand on my specific reasons for not being interested in InterNAP’s Flow Control Platform (FCP) or by extension their route optimized bandwidth in another post. For … Continue reading →

This week we converted a series of Windows servers to VMWare machines. The VMWare Converter worked perfectly (albeit very slowly). After starting the new VM and installing the VMWare Tools we came across an interesting issue – the IP address … Continue reading →

Every now and again I log into a server I haven’t touched in a while and get a pleasant surprise… >[cthought@server01 ~]$ uptime > 11:01:01 up 636 days, 18:11, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.11, 2.25

Every year Gillette and Schick release a new razor. Usually the bold new improvement is an additional blade either on the face or now because the face is so big on the reverse side to reach the hard spots. With … Continue reading →

For years now I have kept all of my receipts (or I should say, all of the receipts that I didn’t lose) just in case. Really what that means is envelopes stuffed full of loosely organized paper – the general … Continue reading →